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In Charles County Public Schools in Maryland, camera systems are used to surveil all of the grounds, not only inside the buildings.
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Laura Geller, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
Disguised as social media, TikTok could in fact be used to surveil millions of Americans and compromise the phones of U.S. military personnel, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee in March 2023.
—Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
Last year, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice opened an investigation into ByteDance after Forbes reported that the company had used TikTok to surveil journalists — a report that ByteDance later confirmed.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
The world Ellison described sounds eerily similar to China’s social credit system, which controls citizens’ behavior through a network of cameras using some of the world’s most advanced facial recognition software to surveil their populace.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
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Laura Geller, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
Disguised as social media, TikTok could in fact be used to surveil millions of Americans and compromise the phones of U.S. military personnel, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee in March 2023.
—Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2023
Last year, the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice opened an investigation into ByteDance after Forbes reported that the company had used TikTok to surveil journalists — a report that ByteDance later confirmed.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
The world Ellison described sounds eerily similar to China’s social credit system, which controls citizens’ behavior through a network of cameras using some of the world’s most advanced facial recognition software to surveil their populace.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024
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